Metz's Stiletto Fly
Female, ventral
Bare-headed Stiletto Fly
Female, dorsal
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| Metz's Stiletto Fly Female, ventral | | Bare-headed Stiletto Fly Female, dorsal | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Stiletto Fly (Therevidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Pale Stiletto Fly (Parapsilocephala sp ES01)| This Photo: | 🔍Female, dorsal🔎 | Thank you Dr Shaun Winterton for identifying and Mark Newton for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We thought this was a Nanexila sp. After Shaun id'ed it for us, we looked at his paper and found different genders of the same species can be different colours. So have changed our id's of the other Therevids here until we have time to review them against his paper. Initially Shaun thought this was Neodialineura litura. But recently Mark Newton kindly pointed out that "Cell m3 is closed in this specimen, so this would be a species of Parapsilocephala and not Neodialineura." In relation to it's gender Mark said "The frons is significantly wider then the ocellar tubercle, so I'd assume it's female." Shaun agreed saying "The frons width and shape would indicate that it is a female"
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